Jigsaw swap

Swapping with Lucie

I had already made up some of these jigsaws .... so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to use them in a swap.

I decorated the insides of the jigsaw with tissue paper - I stamped and coloured the tissue and then adhered it onto the inside of the cards.  I believe this is called a 'Faux Silk' technique.  

I covered both the insides and outside 'jigsaw' cuts with matching papers.  

Then I used rub-ons to add sentiments to the closed jigsaws.

I received some fabulous cards back from Lucie. 

Lucie had some great rub-ons and decorated both the insides and outsides of the cards.

She used some of the papers for the inside of the cards and then decorated them with diamantes and pearls.

Just love what she has done with the jigsaws.


Thank you so much for swapping with me Lucie.

Domino Swap

Swapping with Hally


I was determined to use this domino to tell a story and I wanted to use watercolour papers and paints.
I printed out the title pages and used them on the cover.



Thinking 'Hot Air Balloons'  I opened out the domino and attached cut pieces of watercolour paper to each ATC.

The first balloon was away in the distance, with the nearer balloons slowly coming closer ..... and larger .....


I attached the paper to both sides of some of the cards so that the pictures were showing in order .... does that make sense?


As the balloons get nearer into view then the ground starts to appear below .......





........ and then we have almost the full picture!




 ........ and of course, it folded into this small envelope....





My return domino was superb!!!

All the front (or insides)

All the backs were covered.

Hally had just purchased a gelli plate and was experimenting so she used her domino as a background to display her artwork. 

 I feel very honoured and privileged to be the keeper of her samples!

Thank you Hally for this honour.

Domino Host Card

I decided to decorated a Domino card as a Thank You to the host of one of my swaps.  I have been sending an extra card but thought the Domino would be something different.
I used some of the stickers from my stash and thoroughly enjoyed myself.




I used the corners and a flower for the closed 'front' page.

When opened to the next page I thought this looked like a 'contents' page and used some letter stickers.

Flowers decorated the next pages.......

....... and continued onto the next page ........

A fashionable lady with some flowers completed the last two pages.

I love the way the cards open up but then fold down to fit inside this tiny envelope!!

Domino Owls

An introduction to the Domino ATC card.

Way back in time I discovered an ATC kit.  Now I had been looking at these cards on and off for some time and, when I saw this kit, I knew I wanted to start swapping.


The Dominoes are folded in the kit so I had no inkling how they would look unfolded ...... quite interesting!


So I started decorating, well you have to don't you?!?!


I used some of the papers for the backgrounds and then found some diecuts of owls.  I just enjoyed myself and then ...... folded them all away!!!

UKATC October Theme - Steampunk

I used my digital stamps from Heartfelt Creations, coloured, stamped and decoupaged.   I love these Gears - I never knew that Steampunk could be so feminine ..... and brightly coloured.
I forgot to take photos before I posted them off so am using the ones that Jan took for the Yahoo Group.


They are water coloured, embossed and coloured with metallic pencils. I shall have to make some more!!!

 

I received these cards by return:  to be edited

Je m'appelle Charlie

image courtesy of  http://alittlehut.blogspot.co.uk/

PaperArtsy 2015 Challenge #1

Leandra posted a really interesting Challenge this month - Fragile papers.  I remember posting about my ATCs some time ago but I still have them and admire them often - in fact I think I will make some more.
I didn't use papers from any of my books but tore three pieces of paper from the pages of our local free paper.
I drew out the sizes of the ATCs  on the paper and drew various flower symbols with a lead pencil.   Using watercolour I covered the front of two papers and the back of the third one.
The painting on the back did not show so when it was dry, I painted the front of the paper as well!


I painted one yellow and pink, one was blue and green, and the third one was painted blue on both sides.

I had to leave my desk for a while and, as you can imagine, the paper was very dry when I returned.
I painted the flowers with watercolours, even the white showed through a treat, and left them to dry.

Once dry, I attached the paper to the card and rounded the corners to complete them.